he was kerry mcwilliams's editor actually a little brown and very successful, but he had been blacklistedthur slezinger jr. led that charge and anyway, you know, they they he and cameron struck up a correspondence which turned out to be, you know, super instructive and interesting. but prince jellyfish never made it over the top. if anyone else is on on here that knows something else. i welcome that. so we have a question from stuart. would hunter consider nixon as a lightweight now that we've had the donald can you imagine what he would have said about the country today? yeah, well a couple things about that i mean i write in the book that i don't think donald trump or is supporters or the media reaction to them would have surprised hunter thompson. he had been trying to warn us about people like this for a long time. and at the time, you know when he wrote that stuff in the 70s, for example, it seemed hyperbolic, right? but hybrid hyperbole has its place. and over time, you know, it seemed more prophetic than hyperbolic. i think all the things that he was imagining about nixon who of co

if you add in kerry mcwilliams, he's not counter figure, he is, but some advice from knowledgeable people, maybe there aren't enough books about san francisco. i mean, there's certainly a lot of good ones and david's written one of the west "seasons of the witch", but i think there are still some more here and i think, you know, the fact that people have responded positively to it, not just mine, but david's and others, is a sign that there are still some stories to tell. not just for us, but for broader audiences as well. . >> well, we look forward to that next book and the i think i regret the most about these virtual events, you can't go out for drinks afterward. and so, a rain check is due to you both, david, peter, thank you so much. >> a lot of familiar faces here, i don't have time to acknowledge all of them, plus a lot of new ones and thanks for coming. really final. >> weekends on c-span2 are an intellectual feast. every saturday, american history tv documents america's stories, and on sunday, book tv brings you the latest in nonfiction books and authors. funding for c-span2 come